Margaret Stein, resident of Babylon and dietetic consultant

Margaret Bruce Stein, longtime resident of Sarasota and Siesta Key Florida, and recently of Babylon died April 9 in Spring Hill, Florida of a lengthy illness. She was 90.

Margaret Bruce was born December 14, 1916, in Mt. Carmel Illinois, the daughter of John Homer "Jack" Bruce and Eleanor Orr Bruce. Her father was a stock broker who commuted to Chicago from their small southern Illinois town. Margaret enrolled at Lindenwood College in St. Charles, Missouri and also studied at the University of Colorado at Bolder. She then attended the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree. She received and served a postgraduate internship in clinical dietetics from the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1938-1939.

While at the University of Illinois, Margaret studied in the pioneering department of Chemistry where investigations into the biochemistry of proteins, carbohydrates and amino acids were revolutionizing the science of food and diet. Using new knowledge of the metabolic interrelationships of these molecules, she was among an early group of clinicians to study the causes of obesity. While at Mass General, she experienced outside and firsthand the force of the legendary hurricane of 1938, a vivid memory for her.

On June 4, 1941, she married Benjamin F. Stein, MD in Mt. Carmel. They moved to Sarasota in 1955 where Dr. Stein was Chairman of the Dept. of Anesthesiology at Sarasota Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Stein consulted in dietetics and was active in many Sarasota medical and civic associations.

Mrs. Stein is survived by three children, Julia S. Long and her husband Randy of Spring Hill, Florida, John F. Stein and his wife Beth of Nashville, Tennessee and Kathleen Stein of New York City, three grandchildren: Tyler Stein, Kimberly Long, Jonathan Long and his wife Jaime Long, MD, and great-granddaughter Noelle Bruce Long.

Always a lover of art, literature, ecology and the beauty of nature, Mrs. Setin was an active member of the Ringling School of Art Library Association where she helped the Ringling School of Art attain accreditation. She was a member of Fine Arts Society of Sarasota. She also traveled widely with Sarasota Friends of the Arts and Sciences. She was a supporter of New College and the Ringling Museum of Art, Marie Selby Gardens, and Mote Marine Labortory. She was a student and practitioner of Ikebana flower arrangement.

Mrs. Stein was known for her determination to get things done, often saying '"...must get into high gear."

Funeral services for Mrs. Stein were under the direction of Brewer & Sons Funeral Homes & Cremation Services, Spring Hill, Florida. A memorial service is planned to take place later this spring in Mt. Carmel, Ill.

The family requests, in lieu of flowers, memorial donations be sent to the Mote Marine Laboratory, attention Ms. Robin Cooper, 1600 Ken Thompson Parkway, Sarasota, Florida 34236, with Mrs. Stein's name designated.

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